News & Updates

Please consider joining the reviewer pool for the upcoming EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations panels in March and April 2024.

RII Track-2 FEC builds interjurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in STEM focus areas consistent with the NSF 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. Projects are investigator-driven and must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges, which neither party could address as well or rapidly independently. RII Track-2 FEC projects have a comprehensive and integrated vision to drive discovery and build sustainable STEM capacity that exemplifies individual, institutional, geographic, and disciplinary diversity. Additionally, the projects’ STEM research and education activities seek to broaden participation through the strategic inclusion and integration of diverse individuals, institutions, and sectors. The integration and inclusion of MSIs, women’s colleges, Primarily Undergrad Institutions PUIs, and two-year colleges is a critical component of this sustainable STEM capacity.

For FY 2023/2024, the topical focus area of RII Track-2 FEC is: “advancing climate change research and resilience capacity to expand opportunities for disproportionately affected communities." Full proposals due Jan 23, 5 pm ET.

The goal of the initiative is to enable educators to make high-quality, audience-appropriate artificial intelligence educational experiences available nationwide to K-12, community college, four-year college and graduate students, as well as adults interested in formal training in AI.

The DOE’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for Building EPSCoR-State/DOE-National Laboratory Partnerships.

NSF announces the third EPSCoR Office Hour on Nov 15, 4 to 5 pm EST.

The Coalition’s mission is to advocate for Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)/Institutional Development Award (IDeA) programs to Congress. Primary research areas of interest are the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense (DOD), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Department of Agriculture. Established in 1979, the EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition’s primary purpose, on behalf of its members, is to pursue the following:

Applications are currently being accepted for the Summer 2024 term of two undergrad internship programs offered by the DOE Office of Science: the Science Undergrad Lab Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program. The application deadline is Jan 9, 5 pm EST.

Join Maine EPSCoR for DEPSCoR Day at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine on October 24 to learn about the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR).

On behalf of NSF EPSCoR:

Ming Lei, who has served as director of the Division for Research Capacity at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences since 2008, will assume his new role as senior associate vice president for Research and Graduate Education at West Virginia University Health Sciences beginning Aug 1. Lei was tapped after a national search to replace the retiring Laura Gibson, whose leadership contributed to the University’s designation as an R1 — the highest level of research activity — institution. Lei will oversee the research activity and graduate education experience at Health Sciences.